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Interview with Virginia Portschy
Sheila A. Beims and Virginia Grafel Portschy
An interview with Virginia Portschy regarding her experiences in a one-room school house.
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An Interview with Richard Unruh, Recipient of Outstanding High School Science Teacher in Western Kansas Award, Presented by Sigma Xi
Dennis Blake and Mary Ryckman
Transcript of an interview with Ricahrd Unruh, Recipient of Outstanding High School Science Teacher In Western Kansas Award. ACES 803.
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Interview with Erna Witt
Leonard F. Bunselmeyer Jr. and Erna Witt
An interview with Erna Witt regarding her experiences in a one-room school house.
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An Interview With Rocky Rorabaugh
David Lynn Cherry and Philip Martin Terpstra
Transcript of an interview with Rocky Rorabaugh.
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Interview with Erma Ellis
Sharon Kay Cooper and Erma Ellis
An interview with Erma Ellis regarding her experiences in a one-room school house.
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Interview with Marceline Birchenough
Karen Crow and Marceline Birchenough
An interview with Marceline Birchenough regarding her experiences in a one-room school house.
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Interview with Fae Hickman Brockett
Anne Elizabeth Elder-Coady and Fae Hickman Brockett
An interview with Fae Brockett regarding her experiences in a one-room school house.
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Master Teacher Interview with Kathy Ramsour
Jacque Feist and William Fernandez
Transcript of an interview with Master Teacher , Kathy Ramsour.
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Interview with Zona Wachs Spicer
Michela "Mick" Goll and Zona Wachs Spicer
An interview with Zona Spicer regarding her experiences in a one-room school house.
This collection features oral history interviews focusing on one-room schoolhouses in rural Kansas. The last one-room schoolhouse teacher in Kansas, Selola Lewis, is included in this collection. She taught at the Dermot School in Morton county until the final one-room school closed in 1992. Students from the Fort Hays State University College of Education conducted the interviews of former students and teachers who attended and taught in one-room schoolhouses. Interviews were conducted as part of an effort to develop a significant collection of oral resources that would supplement other primary and secondary local history materials residing in the Plymouth Schoolhouse Archival Collection in Forsyth Library and the Plymouth Schoolhouse building located on the FHSU Campus. Interviews were originally recorded on cassette tapes and then transferred to digital media. The files have been edited to improve the user experience through enhanced sound quality and time management. No voice content has been removed or altered. Raw files of the original interviews along with supplemental materials like teacher biographies and district histories are available upon request.
The primary source materials contained in the Fort Hays State University Special Collections
and Archives have been placed there for research purposes, preservation of the historical
record, and as reflections of a past belonging to all members of society. Because this material
reflects the expressions of an ongoing culture, some items in the collections may be sensitive in
nature and may not represent the attitudes, beliefs, or ideas of their creators, persons named in
the collections, or the position of Fort Hays State University.
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